Four years after promising a plan on global warming, Bush has issued a 224 page report and 100 year timeline that offers no foreseeable results. Titled the US Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan (USCCTPSP), the plan was released on the heels of Al Gore's visionary speech at NYU in a limp effort by the administration to divert attention away from Gore's address and the climate crisis.
Hailed by big business and right wing rags, Bush's report rounds up existing subsidies to nuclear, so called 'clean coal', and ethanol industries under one umbrella while offering a miniscule 7% increase to technology funding already in place.
In summary, the overall strategy is to provide miniscule funding to high efficiency technologies (that nobody will buy given a marketplace full of wasteful low cost options) while failing to do the one thing that would promote the use of cleaner technologies - imposing a cost or cap on carbon dioxide emissions.
If I didn't know this was real, I'd swear I was reading a story from The Onion.
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- On the Wire - 30th September 2006
- Green Party Enviro Platform
- Suzuki to Dion, "Take My Research"
- Stop North American Deep Integration
- Bill Clinton on the Daily Show
- Schwarzenegger Signs Landmark Climate Bill
- Branson Calls for Reduction in Airline CO2 - Westj...
- Reminder: Attenborough's "Can We Save Planet Earth...
- Morning Work
- Online Petition to Bush for Action on Global Warming
- Reduced Packaging Saves Wal-Mart $3.4 Billion
- Right Wing Rag Hails Bush's Climate Plan
- Little Boy Red
- Sir David Attenborough's "Are We Changing Planet E...
- Ontario Moves Forward with Nuclear
- Ex Greenpeace Pres Spews Spin Over Science
- Freneticism
- Lord's Tower
- Playlist - 23rd September 2006
- Clinton Launches $1 Billion Renewable Energy Plan
- Iceland Approaching 100% Renewable Energy
- Wish You Were Here...?
- California Sues Car Firms for Global Warming
- Ambrose Sued for Leaving Spotted Owls to Die
- Clinton's Growing Environmental Legacy
- Canada Gets Cozy with Uncle Sam
- Rumsfeld Leads Secret Talks on North American Merger
- Planting Soldiers
- Gore Corners Bush Into Action
- Remedial vs Advanced Classes in Climate Change
- Playlist - 16th September 2006
- Christine's Job
- The Guardian Profiles Ray Anderson
- Dreaming Girls
- White Buffalo Joins New Bird Species
- BP Ensuring Alaska Won't Be Drilled
- 8.30am
- A Tail of Two Fish
- Elizabeth May to Address Canada's Enviro Record
- Why? Because We Have To: It's the Army
- The Economist On Global Warming
- Amory Lovins on Winning the Oil Endgame
- Strange Days
- Remember
- De Dutch Do Kyoto
- Earthquake!
- 86 and 87 years old
- Shell's President Demands Action On Global Warming
- 9/11 Wankfest
- Playlist - 9th September 2006 - Funkology
- Stick A Fork In Me
- Dark Boys
- Global Warming Warning Signs - Interactive Map
- Wal-Mart's Proving the Organic Lobby Irrelevant
- Now What is Apple Up To?
- Renewable Energy Projects Where You Live
- The Stairmaster
- Wolves Return to Eastern Germany
- Antarctic Ice Core Goes Back 800,000 years
- The Cook & The Bird
- More of Alaska's Glaciers Past vs. Present
- The Conscious Earth Hits 5,000
- Am I Early?
- Truck Driver
- VoW: The Human & Fish CAN Live Peacefully
- Three Valleys of Bastards
- street Shop
- Playlist - 2nd September 2006 - Baked Goods
- Tory Enviro Spin Update
- Toronto's Garbage Crisis Will Boost Sustainability
- Changes ahead
- Bread Moguls Strike Back
- Dub Review - September 2006
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